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This weekend kicks off a very busy season for the Chamber of Commerce.
This Saturday is Small Business Saturday, where everyone is encouraged to shop local at our local businesses.
It is also the beginning of the Finding Cynthia and Ana Promotion.
You may pick up your passport at any of the 28 participating Chamber businesses and begin your search for the six-inch paper dolls of Cynthia and Ana, a drawing by Herbie Moore.

As a country and as individuals, we have a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.
Regardless of your political leanings, we still live in the greatest country in the world.
Sure, we have our problems, but none that can’t be overcome with a little understanding and patience.
Donald Trump won the election and he will be the new President for ALL of us, regardless of what those who are protesting his election might say.

A collective sigh of relief.
The election is over.
Campaign signs have been taken down. Thank-you candidates for that.
Whether your favored candidate won or not, the election is over. Finished. Done.
As a city, county, state and nation, we must move forward. There is much to be done by all of our public officials.
In 1939, Irving Berlin first drafted these words:
God Bless America,
Land that I love.
Stand beside her, and guide her
Thru the night with a light from above.

Isn’t it ironic that the most contentious and divisive presidential election in recent American history comes just three days prior to Veterans Day?
The very freedoms that all Americans enjoy, which allows them to spew hatred and vicious personal attacks at each other for their political differences, was guaranteed by the veterans who have fought and died for those very freedoms.